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    Btrfs: change delayed reservation fallback behavior · c48f49d6
    Josef Bacik authored
    
    
    We reserve space for the inode update when we first reserve space for writing to
    a file.  However there are lots of ways that we can use this reservation and not
    have it for subsequent ordered extents.  Previously we'd fall through and try to
    reserve metadata bytes for this, then we'd just steal the full reservation from
    the delalloc_block_rsv, and if that didn't have enough space we'd steal the full
    reservation from the global reserve.  The problem with this is we can easily
    just return ENOSPC and fallback to updating the inode item directly.  In the
    worst case (assuming 4k nodesize) we'd steal 64kib from the global reserve if we
    fall all the way through, however if we just fallback and update the inode
    directly we'd only steal 4k * BTRFS_PATH_MAX in the worst case which is 32kib.
    
    We would have also just added the extent item for the inode so we likely will
    have already cow'ed down most of the way to the leaf containing the inode item,
    so we are more often than not only need one or two nodesize's worth of
    reservations.  Given the reservation for the extent itself is also a worst case
    we will likely already have space to cover the inode update.
    
    This change will make us behave better in the theoretical worst case, and much
    better in the case that we don't have our reservation and cannot reserve more
    metadata.  Thanks,
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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